Coll 30/9(2) 'Admin. Reports of the Persian Gulf - 1945 -' [‎124r] (247/1148)

truck as^ewbly oi*gfcnlaatJLon in Bualriire in i9*±3| together with
the resultant falling off in demand for labour to handle ships
and lighters resulted in an emigration of labour to abadan f
Khorrumshahr, Bahrain and other places considerably affecting
the prosperity of the town of Bushire. Trade generally f
already slack 9 declined further and a small number of merchants
^ left for Uiiraz and elsewhere to better their position.
(b) The Bushire town area and neighbourhood was
occasionally insecwe during the first six months of the year
and insecurity on v.he Bushire - Bhiraz read continued during
the same period but the situation improved over the latter half
of the year. This was popularly attributed to the fact that
the German agents located with the ^asiiqai tribes had boon
handed over.
(c) The drinking water scheme for the town of
Bushire, the inauguration of which was recorded in the last
administration report, made some progress during tha first
half of the year but left dormant for the summer months
when the engineers in charge went to Tehran to escape the
Bushire heat and tc obtain an increase in the budget for the
scheme. At the request of tho Governor, the Political
Resident lent his ^ood offices tc secure the release of some
1200 sections of iron piping fron the army authorities and •
these arrived in August. Pork contiencod shortly afterwards
on laying the section of piping from Bushire town to the
reservoir constructed on a high point of Bushire islanc near
Uhdur Bundur. Good progress on this section and on the
digging work at the point of water supply at All Changi had
been made by the end of the year but the whole of the ^lashileh
section between BurJ-i-lluqam and All Changi remained to be
covered by earthemware piping.
(d) Owing to poor rainfall in the winter of 1943 -
1944 there was again a great shortage of water in the town.
Here again this Consulate General was able to be of assistance